Skeleton Gets A Shave (Jun, 1941)

Skeleton Gets A Shave

AT LEAST this is how a skeleton would look if it did shave with an electric razor. Actually, it’s an X-ray photograph of a man shaving himself, taken at 1/1,000,000 of a second. The picture was taken by L. F. Ehrke, of the Westinghouse Research Lamp Laboratories, Bloomfield, N. J.

To be fair, even the worst fluoroscopes never really posed a risk to the users of them – however, they WERE major problems for the people who were operating them all day long. Privacy, efficacy, and necessity (i.e. lack of all three) aside, that would be what to worry about with the TSA pornoscanners; the actual exposure to the person within the chamber is way lower than what you get while taking the flight it’s supposedly protecting you from.

Charlene says: August 10, 20119:45 am

I would be more worried about the subject of this X-ray than by the subjects of TSA screening. Our understanding of radiation safety limits has improved since 1941.